THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Explores just about every area of life' DAILY MAIL 'If only Adam
Rutherford and Hannah Fry were on tap to all of us all the time . . . The pair have such a
gift for making life numbers and the forces at work in the universe all the richer stranger
funnier and more marvellous.' Stephen Fry In Rutherford and Fry's comprehensive guidebook they
tell the complete story of the universe and absolutely everything in it - skipping over some of
the boring parts. This is a celebration of the weirdness of the cosmos the strangeness of
humans and the fact that amid all the mess we can somehow make sense of life. Our brains have
evolved to tell us all sorts of things that feel intuitively right but just aren't true: the
world looks flat the stars seem fixed in the heavenly firmament a day is 24 hours... This
book is crammed full of tales of how stuff really works. With the power of science Rutherford
and Fry show us how to bypass our monkey-brains taking us on a journey from the origin of time
and space via planets galaxies evolution the dinosaurs all the way into our minds and
wrestling with some truly head-scratching questions that only science can answer: What is time
and where does it come from? Why are animals the size and shape they are? How horoscopes work
(Spoiler: they don't but you think they do) Does my dog love me? Why nothing is truly round?
Do you need your eyes to see? 'A wonderfully engaging blend of wit enthusiasm clarity and
knowledge.' Bill Bryson 'Like the universe itself this book is multi-faceted surprising and
full of wonders. It's also funny wise and exceedingly brainy. You really owe it to yourself to
read it.' Tim Harford author of How To Make The World Add Up
